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IndustryWeek
January 20, 2010
Jonathan Katz |
Henkel Plant Marks Safety Milestone The company celebrated 25 years without a lost-time injury and 10 years without a recordable incident.   |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009 |
General Cable - Piedras Negras: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 Operators Lead the Way: An empowered workforce is the foundation of success for General Cable's Piedras Negras, Mexico, facility. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2005
George Taninecz |
Thomas & Betts Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 Even Better: New expectations, goals and classic lean practices lead the electrical outlet and conduit box maker to world-class performance. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009 |
General Cable Corp. - Altoona Plant: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 Competing With the World: With savvy market moves and a passion for continuous improvement, the General Cable Altoona plant is meeting the competition head on and winning. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009 |
Masco - Builder Cabinet Group: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 Masco Takes It 'One Kitchen at a Time': Single-piece flow process has helped plant endure one of the worst housing downturns in U.S. history. |
IndustryWeek
April 18, 2012 |
Plant Managers Assume More Profit-Driving Responsibilities In today's fast-paced, globalized economy companies are seeking plant managers with a strong business sense. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
Life Technologies: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 This plant transformation created a true manufacturing environment in a science-based culture and major revenue wins. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
American Axle & Manufacturing - Three Rivers Manufacturing Facility: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Driving Home the Benefits of Productivity: World-class manufacturing systems and employee involvement enable AAM's Three Rivers plant to win new business. |
Food Engineering
February 8, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Hormel Foods planning $6-million expansion of Rochelle, Ill., plant... Loders Croklaan opens new oil processing factory... Pennant Foods doubles capacity of Northlake, Ill., puff-pastry plant... etc. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009 |
Carrier - Carlyle Compressor Facility: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 Unwavering Focus: At Carrier - Carlyle Compressor Facility, ACE methodology drives a structured approach to excellence. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009 |
Philips Respironics: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 Working Hard So Others Can Breathe Easy: Philips Respironics' meticulous attention to production results in healthcare products patients can rely on. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
General Cable Corp. -- Lincoln, R.I.: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 After decades of batch-and-queue production, a veteran workforce has embraced the switch to cellular manufacturing. |
Food Processing
October 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why Do Good Plants Go Down? From a macro perspective the top three major shutdown threats for a food plant could be summarized as: a catastrophic event, a facility's internal operational failure or a facility's external operational failure. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Snap-on Power Tools: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Staying Power: How do you create an 'enduring manufacturing footprint' in a hard-hit North Carolina town? The lean way, of course. |
Food Processing
May 2005
Mike Pehanich |
How to retrofit an aging plant Food processors looking to retrofit aging facilities to get more out of their capital budgets should heed these "rules of retro" before they bring their plants into the 21st century. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
Jill Jusko |
OEE: The Heart of the Matter Measuring overall equipment effectiveness can help a plant do more of what it does best: making products. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
George Taninecz |
Siegel-Robert Automotive Farmington: IW Best Plants Profile 2006 Best Of Times In A Tough Industry: Technical expertise and lean are key to one auto supplier's success. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Carrier Charlotte Chiller Operations: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 A Winning Formula: An emphasis on supplier collaboration, process capability and employee engagement is helping Carrier Charlotte triumph in the 'war on cost.' |
Food Engineering
August 3, 2006
Joyce Fassl |
Editor's Note: In search of the next winner Which outstanding new plant construction project, major expansion or highly renovated facility will be the next Plant of the Year? |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2005
John S. McClenahen |
General Cable Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 Lean, Six Sigma and a remarkable work ethic make the real difference at the cable-maker's Saskatchewan plant. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2005
Tonya Vinas |
Storage Technology Ltd.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 A Passionate People: Meeting a challenge for 20% year-on-year improvements, the data storage company's Ponce, Puerto Rico plant embraces new thinking. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
When Plants Restart Manufacturers struggle to find the skilled labor and funding necessary to reopen idled facilities. |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Idaho Milk Products begins plant construction in Jerome, ID... Lifeway Foods, Inc. completes headquarters expansion... Riviana Foods Inc. to build new rice processing, packaging plant... etc. |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions ADM company opens 500,000-sq.-ft. cocoa processing facility... H. J. Heinz partners in new Florence, SC., frozen-food manufacturing facility... etc. |
Food Processing
February 2011
Bob Sperber |
Plant Floor Efficiency: There's an App for...That? Key performance indicators and overall equipment effectiveness are coming to the plant floor, the front office and now your smart phone. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Medrad Inc., Heilman Center Plant: IW Best Plants Profile 2007 Medrad Flexes its Muscles: Medical device maker builds wiggle room into its processes to stay lean during demand fluctuations. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
Jonathan Katz |
Schneider Electric, Peru Operations: IW Best Plants Profile 2006 A Plant's Grand Vision: Panelboard plant utilizes lean visualization tools to consolidate assembly while increasing productivity. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2007
Ralph Keller |
Continuous Improvement -- What Does Enterprise Excellence Look Like? To get an idea of how good your facility is, start by asking: Would you buy products from your own plant? |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Totally Chocolate begins operations in new manufacturing facility... Blue Ribbon Cheese Co. to build a $225 million manufacturing facility in California... etc. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
L.B. Foster Co. -- Pueblo, Colo.: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 In the never-ending quest to control costs and boost productivity, plant manager Bart Peterson has found that small, incremental process improvements can add up to big gains. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2007 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Smithfield Packing Co. opens $100-million plant in Kinston, NC... New Cargill and CHS partnership begins operating three milling facilities in Canada... American Dairy to expand to China by 2009... |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2009 |
More Highlights From the IW Excellence In Action Plant Tours October and November saw the second half of IndustryWeek's in Excellence In Action plant tours; click here for photographs from all four tours. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Avery Dennison Office Products de Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Opening Room for Growth: Avery Dennison's Tijuana plant gains significant volume by freeing floor space through lean planning. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Batesville Casket Co.: IW Best Plants Profile 2007 Batesville Casket Co. wins a new battle in Vicksburg - this time the loser is inefficiencies. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
IEC Electronics Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 IEC Plant Rises From the Dead: Almost out for the count, circuit-board assembly operation reinvents itself. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Ford Plant Restarts Engines With Skilled Training Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 used lean manufacturing and new cultural practices that helped the plant gain a new engine. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Plant Blueprints Turn Green Building a new plant? Might as well design it for energy efficiency now, while you still have a choice. |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2012
Andrerw Turley |
BP drops $300m US ethanol plans Oil super major BP has dropped plans for a $300 million cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida, US, announced in 2009. The plant would have had a production capacity of 36 million gallons per year. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Toyota's Eco-Friendly Plan for New Plant Lean manufacturing pioneer Toyota Motor Corp. will use its model of efficiency to create an environmentally friendly plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi. |
Food Processing
April 2012
David Phillips |
Top 100 Capital Spending Report: Greek Yogurt Plants are Stacking Up After two years of 20 percent increases, capital spending looks to be up only 4.1 percent this year. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Southwest Cheese Co. nears completion of Clovis, NM cheese production facility... J. Rettenmaier USA to build $23-million dietary oat fiber plant in Cedar Rapids... MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems increases operating capacity of Roosendall, Netherlands facility... etc. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2005
Traci Purdum |
Best Practices -- Productivity Surge Schulte Corp.'s ( a manufacturer of home storage and organization products) double-digit growth demanded more power. |
Food Engineering
March 6, 2006 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Leprino Foods begins construction on cheese plant expansion... Pineland Farms plans to build specialty cheese plant... etc. |
Chemistry World
April 12, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Veolia and Total open oil recycling plant Environmental services firm Veolia Environnement and oil company Total have opened a new plant near Le Havre, France, to regenerate used oils into engine lubricants. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2009
Nick Zubko |
General Cable -- Manchester Plant: IW Best Plants Profile 2008 Mindful of the Surroundings: Historic architecture doesn't get in the way of world-class manufacturing at General Cable's Manchester, N.H., operation. |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Kraft Pizza Company breaks ground on Little Chute, WI, plant... Stellar completes construction of meat processing plant in Seminole, OK... Ottens Flavors purchases Philadelphia plant... Hormel Foods is constructing a new production facility in Dubuque, IA... |
Food Engineering
June 1, 2005 |
Plant Openings & Expansions IFP North America building aseptic multi-fruit plant in Erie, PA... Albuquerque Tortilla Co. breaks ground on plant addition... Archer Daniels Midland upgrading, expanding Bahia, Brazil cocoa processing facility... Tyson Foods to double office space at Springdale, AR... etc. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2008
Wayne Labs |
Fabulous Food Plant Synonymous with Quality Poultry supplier counts on biosecurity, automation and worker safety to produce quality meats. |
Food Processing
April 2013
David Phillips |
Awaiting the Next Generation of Fats and Oils As suppliers and processors end their dash away from hydrogenated products, palm oil and fractions are the fats du jour. |
IndustryWeek
July 22, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Leveraging Lean Designs Think flow and flexibility when designing or relocating to a new facility. |
